There is one bearded head amongst many of them on the sprue of plastic US marines by Warlord Games. When I saw that one, I immediately decided to make one of the miniatures some kind of grizzled veteran. It was achieved with weathering pants of the uniform and using more greys on the face, which makes the miniature a little older.

Head itself was really fun to paint but beard has rather shallow details, most of them visible on the photo are just painted by myself. I noticed that painting faces is slowly becoming my most favourite part of the whole process. I even spent more time painting them then any other part of the miniatures. And painting eyes is easy again after changing lenses in my modelling glasses from 1.8 magnification to 3.5. This miniature was painted with old lenses though.

Photo visible at the beginning of the note is bigger then usual and not so compressed, so details are, maybe, a little more visible.